Prepackaged fruit salad taken down after found containing salmonella

The Centre for Food Safety instructed Pret A Manger to stop selling prepackaged fruit salads, after the center detected Salmonella in a sample. 

The center found the sample to be containing Salmonella under its routine Food Surveillance Programme from Pret A Manger in Kowloon Bay. 

Salmonella should not be detected in 25g of a ready-to-eat food sample, according to a spokesman. 

The center has informed the restaurant concerned, and the food factory which produced the fruit salad, of the unsatisfactory test result and instructed them to stop selling the food item concerned immediately.  

Officers also inspected Pret A Manger and the food factory involved, providing health education on food safety and hygiene to the person-in-charge and staff.

They said they are following up on the incident and will take appropriate action to ensure food safety and public health.

The center also reminded the public that Salmonella infection may cause fever and gastrointestinal upset such as vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea.